CinHough

Once when my husband and I were driving home after a vacation in St. Louis (we live in Iowa), we had just gotten into a disagreement and currently weren't speaking to each other. As we were driving past this horribly run-down diner, we both notice the big arrow marque which read:

HO made pies

We both started to giggle hysterically and then couldn't remember what we had been fighting about.

I mean really, what a horrible thing to put about the poor lady who baked all their pies!

The high-rise building where I went to business school had a strip mall on the bottom floor. There was a jewelry store that had a sign inside that said

"Ears pierced while you wait."

I swear it's true.

Maybe this one doesn't count because it's supposed to be funny, but I'll post it anyway. The last time we went on vacation to San Diego, there were billboards all over the place with funny sayings on them - I don't remember what they were advertising, but my favorite was the one that said

For the first sign, I will see if Hubby can dig out the pictures, to prove it's true! Hubby used to work for a movie theatre. He showed up one day, and immediately walked into the manager's office to explain that the marquee needed to be changed immediately. They were showing three movies at the time, the marquee read "Erin Brokovitch" "Screwed" "My Dog Skip"

Onother sign, which we sadly didn't get a picture of, was at a hotel in the town where our Ren Faire is, either the wind had knocked down a key letter, or there was a vandal with a bad sense of humor, the sign read "Take the plunge in our heated poo"

I'll share another one that I wish I'd been able to take a photo of. In downtown Chicago there's a Wacker Drive and a Lake Shore Drive. A few years ago, there was major construction on Wacker, and the city put up big LCD signs that said "Wacker closed: Use LSD." They lasted about one day before they caught on that they were advocating drug use and rephrased it